'New gifts,' i.e. knowledge of which the proof is bestowed by God and occurs to one's own mind as the result of sound reflection.

8. 'Covering their faces for shame,' i.e. they are ashamed to reveal themselves to those whose hearts are generally occupied with something other than God, viz. the ordinary believers described in Kor. ix, 103.

9. 'Teeth like pearls,' i.e. the sciences of Divine majesty.

10. 'Experienced in the wars,' etc., i.e. able to distinguish the real from the phenomenal in the similitudes presented to the eye.

11. 'From their bosoms,' i.e. from the Divine attributes.

'New moons,' i.e. a manifestation in the horizon (###).

'Which suffer no eclipse,' i.e. they are not subject to any natural lust that veils them from the Divine Ideas.

14. 'She established the harmony of union,' i.e. this knowledge concentrated me upon myself and united me with my Lord.

'Arab,' i.e. it caused me to know myself from myself.

'Foreign,' i.e. it caused me to know myself from God, because the Divine knowledge is synthetic (###) and does not admit of analysis except by means of comparison; and since comparison is impossible, therefore analysis is impossible; whence it follows that synthesis also is impossible, and I only use the latter term in order to convey to the reader's. intelligence a meaning that is not to be apprehended save by immediate feeling and intuition.

'Forget,' i.e. his knowledge and himself.

15. 'A dazzling levin,' i.e. a manifestation of the Essence in the state of beauty and joy.